City sues owner of Yabba Dabba Flintstone House, calling it a public nuisance

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  • A menagerie of prehistoric animals now stands guard at the famous Flintstone House, Tuesday, March 13, 2017, in Hillsborough, Calif. Three dinosaurs, a giraffe and a mastadon were added by Florence Fang, the homes new owner. (Karl Mondon/Bay Area News Group)

  • Visitors to the so-called Flintstone House in Hillsborough, Calif., are greeted by a pair of black swan sculptures, Thursday, March 8, 2018. (Karl Mondon/Bay Area News Group)

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  • A landscaper passes a Fred Flintsone statue, Thursday, March 8, 2018, while working at a home in Hillsborough, Calif. The iconic home along Interstate 280, often referred to as the Flintstone House, sold last year for $2.8 million. (Karl Mondon/Bay Area News Group)

  • The home known as the Flintstone House, sits nestled in the trees in Hillsborough, Calif., on Tuesday, Sept. 8, 2015. The house is going on the market next week for an asking price of $4.2 million. (John Green/Bay Area News Group)

  • Multi-colored pillows decorate the conversation pit in the home known as the Flintstone House, in Hillsborough, Calif., on Tuesday, Sept. 8, 2015. (John Green/Bay Area News Group)

  • A niche is decorated in the kitchen of the Flintstone House, in Hillsborough, Calif., photographed on Tuesday, Sept. 8, 2015. (John Green/Bay Area News Group)

  • The unique contours of the kitchen in the so-called Flintstone House are reflected in a glass countertop, Thursday, March 8, 2018, in Hillsborough, Calif. (Karl Mondon/Bay Area News Group)

  • Real Estate agent Judy Meuschke stands in the kitchen of the home known as the Flintstone House, in Hillsborough, Calif., on Tuesday, Sept. 8, 2015. (John Green/Bay Area News Group)

  • One of the doors in the Flintstone House was designed by Burning Man artist Dan Das Mann. The home was photographed in Hillsborough, Calif., on Tuesday, Sept. 8, 2015. (John Green/Bay Area News Group)

  • Traffic passes by on Interstate 280 in a view from the sitting room of the so-called Flintstone House, Thursday, March 8, 2018, in Hillsborough, Calif. (Karl Mondon/Bay Area News Group)

  • A landscaper passes a Fred Flintsone statue, Thursday, March 8, 2018, while working at a home in Hillsborough, Calif. The iconic home along Interstate 280, often referred to as the Flintstone House, sold last year for $2.8 million. (Karl Mondon/Bay Area News Group)

  • The home known as the Flintstone House, as seen from Interstate 280, is going on the market next week for an asking price of $4.2 million, in Hillsborough, Calif., on Tuesday, Sept. 8, 2015. The three bedroom and two bathroom home was designed by architect William Nicholson and built in 1976 as an experiment in new building materials, in the form of a series of domes. (John Green/Bay Area News Group)

  • The Flintstone House was designed by architect William Nicholson and built in 1976 as an experiment in new building materials, in the form of a series of domes. It was photographed in Hillsborough, Calif., on Tuesday, Sept. 8, 2015. (John Green/Bay Area News Group)

  • The home known as the Flintstone House, which can be seen from Interstate 280, is going on the market next week for an asking price of $4.2 million, in Hillsborough, Calif., on Tuesday, Sept. 8, 2015. (John Green/Bay Area News Group)

  • A window inside the home known as the Flintstone House, which can be seen from Interstate 280, is photographed in Hillsborough, Calif., on Tuesday, Sept. 8, 2015. The house is going on the market next week for an asking price of $4.2 million. (John Green/Bay Area News Group)

  • A kitchen window highlights a cutout screen made of wood and painted to look like metal in the Flintstone House in Hillsborough, Calif., on Tuesday, Sept. 8, 2015. (John Green/Bay Area News Group)

  • Crews repair the street after a water line break in the 1700 block of Rancho Hills Drive in Chino Hills on Monday, March 18, 2019. The small water line failed Sunday, between the 16-inch main water line and a fire hydrant, causing road damage, which could take as long as three weeks to repair. (Photo by Jennifer Cappuccio Maher, Inland Valley Daily Bulletin/SCNG)

  • Skylights provide plenty of natural light in the Flintstone House, which will be soon listed for $4.2 million. It was photographed in Hillsborough, Calif., on Tuesday, Sept. 8, 2015. (John Green/Bay Area News Group)

  • A menagerie of animals now stands guard at the famous Flintstone House, Sunday, Jan. 22, 2017, in Hillsborough, Calif. The three dinosaurs and their giraffe and mastodon partners appeared recently on the hillside home that sold last year for $2.8 million. (Karl Mondon/Bay Area News Group)

  • Under the watchful gaze of a triceratops dinosaur, Florence Fang adjusts one of her colorful mushroom sculptures in the garden of her new home, the so-called Flintstone House, Thursday, March 8, 2018. (Karl Mondon/Bay Area News Group)

  • The view from a sitting room in the so-called Flintstone House, looks out on a cactus garden in a window to the west, Thursday, March 8, 2018, in Hillsborough, Calif. (Karl Mondon/Bay Area News Group)

  • Real estate agent Judy Meuschke climbs out of the fabricated rock tub in the Flintstone House in Hillsborough, Calif., on Tuesday, Sept. 8, 2015. (John Green/Bay Area News Group)

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Its a big Yabba Dabba Dont for this Hillsborough home.

Calling it a “highly visible eyesore” and “out of keeping with community standards,” Hillsborough planning and building officials are asking a judge to officially declare the iconic Flintstone House a “public nuisance,” and they want a recently-erected metal menagerie of prehistoric animals, along with other features, removed.

Media mogul Florence Fang purchased the property in 2017 and quickly got to work remaking the backyard with a herd of 15-foot dinosaurs, plus a giraffe, mastadon, and brightly-colored Read More

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